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With a boat and a pool, I grew up in the water. My husband had a pool growing up as well ... Last summer marked eight years of us not having a pool - and we were so tired of driving to grandma and grandmpa's houses to swim!
Last summer we finally put in our pool. The payoff has been...
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It’s that time of year again. I can practically SMELL the pencils being sharpened and hear the moaning as I mention that this week is the last week of summer. Sadly, it’s the last week for us both (my classes start Monday, man-cub’s start Wednesday).
We always like to...
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This summer, at home or on vacation, hours of fun learning can come out of the use of a couple of simple tools, some you can even make! This out-of-school learning inspires curiosity and the wonder of nature in your child while building critical thinking and acute observation skills...
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Once a year my grandparents make the nail biting trip down from Brookings Oregon to Sacramento to visit the family for a week. This isn’t the cute, pretty, foresty part of Oregon. This is the part of Oregon that’s so far away it butts up to the North Pole. It’s a three day drive...
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Summer officially starts tomorrow, June 21. But it started for me last Monday, the first day of no more school (I'm a middle school teacher). I have 2 step kids who live halftime with us, halftime with their mom. This week they were at mom's, so I had the FULL WEEK of just...
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Ok, I don't usually do two blogs back to back... this one is short.
I was talking about wanting a change with my hair on theTALK boards (which now vanished. I'm thinking because it was under Sex and the City?), and just wanted to show the before and after pics.
My son said "I was wrong,...
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Okay - I know it's bad when I slam on my brakes for a gas station that has gas that costs $4.09 a gallon! (South Watt and Fruitridge - by the way)...
I WAS looking towards this summer - but to tell the truth - I'm starting to really worry about how I'm going to get...
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As a kid, I would start the summer countdown right after Christmas. Marking each day off my calendar with big red sharpie X’s. Once I left school, I didn’t think I’d have that same sensation, counting down till summer.
Now, that sharpie is out once again. I can’t...
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As a mom of four boys, I have become quite the Entomologist. My boys are typically fascinated with every naturally occurring thing on Earth. We would discover the most unusual bugs. Like, an arachnid that looked like half scorpion and spider. It didn't have a stinger but,...
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